On the repeat, the soloist joins the orchestra.) VOCAL MUSIC OF THE CLASSICAL PERIOD OPERA 1) 2) 3) 4) DRAMA THAT IS SUNG IT COMBINES VOCAL AND INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC WITH PEOTRY AND DRAMA, ACTING AND PANTOMIME, SCENERY AND COSTUMES IT USES A) SOLOISTS B) ENSEMBLES C) CHORUS D) ORCHESTRA E) SOMETIMES DANCING ELEMENTS OF OPERA A) RECITATIVE (EXPLANATIONS NECESSARY TO THE PLOT) B) ARIA (RELEASES THE EMOTIONAL TENSION. THIS IS WHERE THE SINGER SHOWS OFF THEIR VIRTUOSITY C) OVERTURE (USUALLY BEGINS OPERA AND NEW ACTS D) INTERLUDES (KNOWN AS SINFONIAS DURING PERIODBOCCUR BETWEEN SCENES) E) LIBRETTOBTHE WORDS SUNG DURING THE OPERA WERE WRITTEN BY ANOTHER PERSON CALLED A LIBRETTIST) ORATORIO 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) DESCENDED FROM THE RELIGIOUS PLAY-WITH-MUSIC FIRST ONES WERE SACRED OPERAS LATER ONES LEFT THE STAGE LARGE SCALE MUSICAL WORKS (GENERALLY BASED ON A BIBLICAL STORY) PERFORMED IN A CHURCH OR HALL WITHOUT SCENERY, ACTING, OR COSTUMES
Vivaldi’s orchestra in the Bassoon concerto consisted of a bassoon, Violin 1 and 2, Viola, Cello, and Bass. ******** Composer Beethoven was born in Germany. He was an innovator, widening the scope of sonata, symphony, concerto and quartet, and combining vocals and instruments in a new way. His personal life was marked by a struggle against deafness, and
In 1994 he accomplished this from the American Film Institute, and three years later made his directorial debut with The House of Yes, starring Freddie Prinze Jr. and Parker Posey. Based on a stage play, Waters adapted the comic script to screenplay format. The film received various award nominations from festivals and won Special Recognition at Sundance for Posey's performance. Waters
A few composers who made music today possible by struggling through the aftermath of the Black Death epidemic would be; Jasquin Des Prez, (who was a big name at the time,) Pierre De La Rue, a very well proclaimed vocalist (The New York Time Company 2012, March 23. Top 8 Renaissance Composers Retrieved from http://classicalmusic.about.com.) One such composer whose name is still heard pretty often would be Johann Sebastian Bach; he is considered as one of the faces of classical music. Like all of us, he started out with baby steps, slowly learning the ways of music. Bach came from a family of musicians who brought him into the whole scene; his father was a director and had several uncles who were musicians (Christoph Wolff, Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician (New York: W.W. Norton and Company, Inc., 2000.)
Lucas Cranach (1472 - 1553) Lexa Ale History Honors: Hars November 19, 2013 Life of Lucas Cranach Lucas Cranach, born as Lucas Sunder on October 4, 1472 in the town of Kronach in Northern Franconia, was known as one of the most famous Renaissance artists of his time. He was one of the four children to Hans Maler, the painter. His mother’s name, however, isn’t known, only her maiden name; Hubner, was able to be found. Like other famous painters, Lucas took the name of his hometown in place of his original last name. Lucas lived his long, inspiring life as not only a painter and printmaker, but an entrepreneur and politician as well.
[4][5] Hanks's parents divorced in 1960. The family's three oldest children, Sandra (now Sandra Hanks Benoiton, a writer), Larry (now Lawrence M. Hanks, PhD, an entomology professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)[6] and Tom, went with their father, while the youngest, Jim, now an actor and film maker, remained with his mother in Red Bluff, California. Afterwards, both parents remarried. Hanks's first stepmother came to the marriage with five children of her own. Hanks once told Rolling Stone: "Everybody in my family likes each other.
Bette was married four times her first husband was Harmon Nelson 1932-1938, her second was Arthur Farnsworth 1941-1943 he died, her third was William Grant Sherry 1945 they had one child, her fourth husband was actor Gary Merrill 1950-1960 they had 2 children. Her birth name was Ruth Elizabeth Davis, she had many nickname but the one that kept with her since childhood was Bette, she
James Deetz had 10 children (6 boys and 4 girls), and was married twice. Eleaonore Joanne Kelly , the first wife, from 1953 to 1997. And, Patricia Elena Scott, from 1997 to 2000. On November 25th, 2000, James Deetz died at Martha Jefferson Hospital in Charlottesville, Virginia. James Deetz was famous for his interpretations of pilgrim life in Plymouth Plantation in Massachusetts.
Stephen Hawking, which is the main character of this film, is a theoretical physicist-cosmologist and Director of Research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology which involves the University of Cambridge. Stephen is now divorced but really good friends with his ex-wife and her new husband after Stephen got diagnosed with no cure. When he was 21 years-old, he has a slowly progressing form of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, which is ALS. ALS has gradually paralyzed him since he was 21. He has
Later, Shockley would divorce Jean and marry Emmy Lanning, who would have a son, Dick. Shockley headed the Bell Lab’s solid-state physics lab for 19 years before starting his own company: Shockley’s Semiconductor Laboratory, a division of Beckman Instruments. He would sell the company in 1960, and in 1968 it would be bought by ITT. William Shockley would die in 1989 of prostate cancer. Over his lifetime he would receive the Comstock prize in physics, the Oliver E. Buckley Solid State Physics Prize, was the co-recipient of the Nobel Prize, the Holley Medal, the Maurice Liebman Memorial Prize, and several honorary doctorates from various universities.